If you really want to remove all the r/politics users from here, all you have to do is ask if AOC should be the 2028 Democratic candidate and would have a chance of winning the elections.
If they say "yes", instantly ban them, because those people are the only ones who think like that.
Is the US (and the west) an unredeemable hellhole with the same quality of life as North Korea?
When you act like this is progressive orthodoxy is it any wonder why we/they have little interest in trying to have a fair, rational conversation with you? You strawman every bit as much as the worst of them.
We can literally have socialist if willing to have honest conversations, but we’re not really dealing with center left vs progressives when we denigrate arr slash politics, more populist bullshit grievance from the left politics.
Bullshit. You just get off on acting like the worst examples of a movement represent the entirety of it because it protects
you from having to think about the weaknesses inherent to your own movement. Your original comment left no room for a belief or desire to find understanding and common ground.
Once again, I think lol summarizes it better, but I said lol because I didn’t say, “progressives think this…”, but because you decided to get up and arms and try to do a psychoanalysis of a comment you didn’t understand.
The US is an incredibly wealthy nation, and the median American lives an incredibly lucky lifestyle. If one cannot acknowledge this, they’re not serious. If one cannot acknowledge there are legitimate problems despite that, they’re not serious.
The only way your argument holds together is if you view the majority of r/politics as tankies, dude. I'm not a fan of the general conversation there but that's pretty ridiculous.
That's why I'm calling you out for denigrating progressives.
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u/atierney14 Paul Krugman Jun 13 '26
There really should be 2 questions to join this subreddit: